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4 DEATH TRAP.
Twelve Miners Burned Alive In
Their Boarding House.
Surrounded by Flames and Unable
to Make Their Escape.

Early the other morning Mrs. Frank Miller,
with night dress on fire and her hair stream
ing behind her, burst from the boarding house
kept by her husband, in Bessemer, Mich,
and, screaming with fright and pain.
ran, flying colun,n,of fame, and threw
herself into a small stream near the
house. An instant later the whole house,
twostory, f1imsy structure of wood, In
which were twenty-five men, was wrapped
in fame, and Mr.. Miller came out, dragging
two Of the female servants, in their night
clothes in frenzy of terror. = -;
Then an alarm went up to the men. In the
second story, and after what seemed an age
to the crowd that gathered quickly man
appeared at a window and feaped to the
ground He was followed by twelve
others, most Of whom writhed for moment
on the frozen ground with broken limbs or
agoniang burns, and then were taken to
happening Mrs. Miller suddenly reappeared
ooh, my God my children!' n she exclaimed,
and dashed into the house, followed by her,
husband. 1t was not thought they could save
even themselves from death, but both re-
appeared q moment later with their two chill
dren, one hardly more than babe Both
were in stupor, but the flames had not
touched them and they were soon revived.
Meantime two or three Of the twelve men
still in the upper story could be seen ap-s
parently groping about in the smoke, being
repeatedly beaten back from the windows
by the flames. All were In one room, but
it was impossible to reach them from the
street. Prayers and mad cries went up from
the half f-crazed crowd. "Jump or dieIn was
the last note Of warning, and the building
fell, carrying with it into the mass Of Goals
and flames the twelve men. =.
It was less than forty minutes from the
time the first alarm was given until the build.
ing was in ruins and the twelve lives had
been sacrificed. Two hours later the charred
bones were found in heap In the eel
lar and were gathered into one box, over
which ghastly pile the Coroner held an In
guest, generating everybody from blame,
At noon the funeral was hold and was attend
ed by 800 Of the 200 persons that make up,
the town. ..,........ =,
Mrs Miller, who was badly but not fatally
burned, says she was awakened by stding
smoke and seemed unable to move. By ex-
traordinary exertion she overcame the stupor
and aroused her husband. They called
loudly to the boarders and escaped as
best they could. The men burned were
laborers and miners and not possessed Of
property, nor had they any friends In that
region who had known them long. Several
Of the rescued men were also badly, II not
fatally, burned.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TIE Hon. William NJ. Evarts's boots are
said to cost him s25 q pair.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is Just fifty years
old. His wife is studying French.
Mr.. BLAINE is to go TO Europe in May if
he does not change his mind before that time
UNITED STATES SENATOR SPooSER and his
wife, of Wisconsin, will be among the European
wanderers this year.
RAs ALULA, highly successful AbySSinian
General, is the son OF black slave, and IS
thirtytwo years old.
Or the original members Of Plymouth
Church only two-Henry c. Bowen and John
II. Howard-are living.
COLONEL INGERsoLI saysh he will deliver no
more anti-reliSious lectures. His law prac-
tice takes all his time.
BESIDES being we'll up in all matters per-
tanning to farming, the composer Ferdl Is
veterinarian Of high ran,ta
JUDGE GRAY, Of White County, Arkansas,
was putting on his wedding clothes the other
day preparatory to marrying. Miss Mamie
Patty, when he complained of pain In his
right arm, called for water, and then almost
immediately died
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NINETY YEARS old.
HOnors Paid to the Aged En-
peror of Germany.
His Birthday Celebrated in Royal
Manner at Berlin.

A Berlin dispatch gives the following de-.
tails Of the festivities attending the ce!ebra-
tion of Emperor Williams birthday:
The ninetieth anniversary Of Emperor
Williams birth was ushered in by the peal
ing of bells in all the churches and the tower
of the Town Hall and the sounding of a
choral. The city was decorated as it never
was before. Garlands, flags, laurels, festoons
of evergreen, banners, bright drapery,
and brilliant carpets hung on every conspicu-
ous spot where ornament could be made to
add to the joyous appearance Of the town.
Conspicuous by the extreme elegance OF their
decoration were the Royal Academy and the
university buildings, and the city residence OF
the Crown Prince, Frederick William.
The monument of Frederick the Great was
covered with wreaths and flowers. Wherever
there was q bust or statue Of the En-
peror in a shop window or other exposed
place it was buried in flowers.
The people were all out in holiday
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Washington.

CHARLES CoLBURN, a messenger Of the
Treasury Department, has been dismissed for
loaning money to employees at ten per cent.
per month.
APPLICATION has been made to the Treas
ury Department for the admission duty free
at San Francisco of a joss or Chinese idol $50
feetlong, and made Of wood, paper tinsel and
metal.
THE Treasury Department will resume
printing 81 and s. notes, in order to supply
the demand for small bills.
THERE are 296, ,2s6 pension cases pending in
the United States Pension Bureau.
COMMANDER DAVIS, Of the United States
training ship Saratoga, reports that while at
San Fernando, by the swamping of small
boat Paymasters Clerk Albert Taylor
Cowie; j. Oates, Apothecary; q. H. Hesse,
Armorer, and William Foster, Coxswain,
were drowned.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER EDGERToN
states that nine clerks in the Interior Depart
ment have been appointed in violation of the
Civil Service law, and that they will be or
dered out, and their places filled by persons
who have passed the required examination.
BENTON j. HALL, an ex-Congressman from
Iowa, is authoritativcly named as the success
sor to Commissioner of Patents Montgomery,
whose resignation was rendered to the Presi-
dent some weeks ago
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The English War Office refused per-
-emptorily to permit the landing in Ire
land of the Gate City Guards of Atlanta,
Ga, under uniform. But General Bou-
LANCER, the French War Minister, in his
reply to Captain T. F. Burke, the com,
mander of the company, says: "1t viii
afford me the greatest pleasure to see you
in France with the Gate City Guards,
coming as you do to give testimony to the
patriotic friendship that exists between
the United States and my own beloved
country.n
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A Toronto shoplifter was recently cap
tnred in Montreal, and she panned out
remarkably we'll. In a pocket three feet
long was an assortment of spoons, thread,
lace, and other valuables. Her hustle
was formed of two bed sheets, lady's
beautiful hat, and a colored glass jug.
Her trunks contained bed clothes, all
kinds of wearing apparel, brushes, combs,
over 1000 rolls of thread, a large bag OF
needles, pins, &C., about fifty pounds of
soap, matches, fancy cards, glassware,
table goods, feathers, bottles, and jars OF
,,rncorunc
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Jefferson Davis has written a letter
contradicting the rumor that he was
about to visit Washington. He says
that he will never see the capital again.
'It would be pleasant to view the scenes
which were once so familiar to me-" he
adds, "though I doubt if would hardly
recognize the city now, as it has so i'm
proved and grown. No, I shall never
again see Washington. I'm getting too
old to travel"
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There are twenty millions of peop

There are twenty millions of people in
Japan belonging to the agricultural
classes, but of its area of one hundred
millions of acres twelve millions only
are in cultivation, and from these are
produced all the food and textile plants
grown to feed and clothe thirty-eight
millions of people. The untitled area
yields only. fuel. In Japan a wide
bladed mattock is the common implement
of cultivation, the plow being compara-
lively but little used.
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There are victims in all the New York
hospitals of the explosions and accidents
in the construction of the great aque-
duct. The deaths arc publicly reported,
but no mention is made of the casualties,
which are almost of daily occurrence
Several, eff the hospitals are overcrowded
in consequence of this unusual demand
upon their accommodations.
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Ex-President White of Cornell Uni
versity predicts that eventually there will
be formed a great educational system
worthy of this country, in which the
public schools will give the basis, the
colleges the intermediate education and
the universities the most advanced general
and professional instruction.
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In the Autograph Album.

A few days before his death, Mr..
Beecher was asked by one of his nieces
to write in her autograph album. He
penned the following lines:
ITO Mother Earth:
"Give your greenest mound, and your
fairest flowers, to your dearest lover"
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Foreign.

MoBs hanged William Hardy, murderer,
mt Troy, Tenn, and "One-ear Dodge" q
horse-thief, IN New Mexico.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS ninetieth birthday
has just been celebrated throughout Germany
t;ves. The celebration lasted nearly week
in Berlin and about every Court in Europe
was represented by either the reigning mon
arch, the heir apparent, or other leading
members of the royal families
RICH gold deposits have been discovered in
British Columbia, close to the Alaskan from
tier.
THE struggle has begun in the British
House of Commons over the measures pro-
yiding for coercion in Ireland.
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A Montana man reached Chicago with
five carloads of good cattle the other day,
sold them at an advantage, and turned
Nh at q Police Court next morning with
seventy-fve cents, which was ali shat
remained of the thousands of dollars that
he had when he started to take in the
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The celebrated set of cameo glassware
owned by the late Mrs. Morgan, New
York, of peachblow-vase fame, and which
cost $1s, 900, was sold recently at auction
for st,676. But even at those figures 1t
makes pretty expensive property for the
hired girl to smash.
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The Car of Russia takes much more
pleasure in playing with his children at
the grounds of Gatschina than In st.
Petersburg society during the gay season.
Probably that's the time when he is IN
the least danger of being dy namited.
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South and West.

FIFTY mad dogs are causing scare IN the
country about Atlanta, Ga A score Of per-
sons have been bitten, several have died, and
a hundred or more head Of stock have been
laceratcd by the animals. Madstoncs are In
great demand.
A PRAIRIE fire has swept over lhe country
south of Larned, Kan, burning over strip
about six miles wide and twenty miles long.
A large number Of buildings were destroyed.
A Mrs. Kulow was burned to death while try
ing to get stock out Of a stable.
A FIRE at Rock Hill, N. c., destroyed the
posto0ice, hotel, two banks and several stores.
Total estimated loss, 100000.
THE Texas Legislature having passed res
olution e1pelling from the legislative cham
Der H. S. Garfield, an Austin editor whose
caustic criticisms had aroused the ire Of
the Legislators, Speaker Pendleton took
proceedings to have the resolution carried
into effect. Garfield caused Pendleton's ar
rest. Then the Legislature arrested Garfield,
the Justice who ordered the arrest of Pendle-
ton and the constable who had taken the
Speaker into custody. Garfield got forty
eight hours in Jail.
THE Missouri law prohibiting the nlanufac-
ture and sale Of oleomargarine has been re-
carry on their trade by complying with the
United States law.
TEN Mormons imprisoned in the Detroit,
(Mich) House Of Correction have been re.
leased upon decision Of the United States
Supreme Court which declares that cumu-
lative sentences are illegal. They had been
convicted of violating the anti-polygamy
law.
A MAN named Foster living near White
bread, Indian Territory, fired at mouse in
his cabin The shot struck a can Of powder,
which exploded, and Foster, his wife and two
children were killed.
Col. WIN. H. MARTIN was nominated by q
Democratic Convention to fill the sent of Sen
ator-elect Reagan in Congress from Texas on
the 272d ballot.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN discussed the
tariff at meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
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OBADIAH VINCENT, an inmate of the Cum
berland County, Illinois, poor-house, was born
in Kentucky in 17G7, and is consequently 120
years old. His form is bent nearly double, he
able to do enough work to keep him out Of tho
poor house.
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FATE OF CHINESE TRAMPS.
Three Hundred OF them Lured INTO
a Tcmplc-26O Burned to Death.

The steamer Belgic. which arrived at San
Francisco from China anl Japan. hrInSS
news Of dreadful tragedy at Hisia SIND
twenty miles northeast of Honschow, emma;
Over 800 tramps appeared in the village; .i;. aaiu
presence, inveiSled the whole of them into
The Ii temple, and during the night set fire to
the editice Only forty OF the tramps es-
capped from the blazing building, the fe-
maindcr being burned to death.
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THREE years ago seventeen bachelors Of
keystone, Dakota, entered into solemn COM
pact never to marry. Eleven Of them are al
ready husbands and two Of them are soon to
wed
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A LAND SLIDE in the mountains above
Chico, Cal, the other day laid bare broad
streaks of White quartz, which carries, ap-
parently, a very large percentage of gold.
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In Paris Count Won Munster held recep-
ton in honor of tho occasion. The whole
diplomatic world, all the members OF the
French Cabinet, Count de LeSseps, ana tne
prominent foreign residents of Paris, were
present The lion of the evening was Cen
eral Boulanger, the French War Minister.
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carriage.


Notwithstanding the march Of clyiliZs-
ton, the duel refuses to die. In come
quarters it holds its own, but it makes no
advance and Is no more attractive than 1t
was century or go ago. In this age the
world demands novelties, and ii the duel
10 to survive hostile criticiam, the sarcasm
oil sharp-pointed pens and the ridiculs OF
the caitoonists, 1t will have to display
itself on novel lines. IL
In Mexico they seem to realizs the de-.
msnd Of the times. There O duel has i1gt
been fought With tho deadly tsrsntula-
the combatants locked up in dark room
filled with those bloodthiIsty creatures.
The men went in to stay unit! they had
overcome all the tsrantulas in the ap-
partmcnt. They remained within so long
that suspicion was aroused. Then 1t was
discovered that tho tarantulas were mag.
tiers OF the situation. Both tho men waro
dead, and u horrible death they must hayo
died. q 4 fii IA
n This was striking novelty in the duel,
but it doeu not exhaust the possibilities.
What is tho matter with a room full Of
Jersey mosquitoes? There are plenty Of
them, and they are game every time.
Here, is 4 thought Tor Boulanger and
Ferry. Tho weapons could easily be had
BY the next steamer. N 4 5l 3
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5BKEAkFAsr BUDGET,

win, vigor and victory is the latest
Republican waschWord proposed.
One Of the big redwood trees Of Calilor.
MIA furnishes $4,000 feet Of lumber for
= Pullman car interiors. ~. R q Is e
There are said TO be CO., 900 Americans in
4 London, spending on All average sl0O
each, or $4,000, 00oannually. .ssss.
!4 y In most places In California land ceases
to boom when the assessor heayes in
sight Rrginia { Ntr) Enterprise. 49,
$iff Don't 20 East to be killed by sunstroke
or lightning, bitten by snakes, or worried
I by mad doga.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Il The. Ohio pot Ia preparing to boil over
again with bad politics and set the embers
OF ambition to sizzlipg.-Phidslphia Netrs.
The reason Booder McGar;gle did not
\ take that bath was that he could not get
away with it.-Patsblrgh Chronicle 1sle-
graph. AZ &. g,
Every man who has decision Of char.
/ ac.er will have enemies, and the man who
4 has no decision and no good character can
have no good friends.
cred River is 80 low" says Texas ps.
pei, ,'.it can't get out OF its bed" On the
other hand, tAsro is the Ocmulgee 80 full
/. that 1t can't be kept in its bed.
M1s. sBlavateky, theosophist, nothing
better, nothing worse, Is about to publish
I world enligh.ener III London In the
form OF a monthly called Lncifr.
A Raleigh lady has q cactus which has
bloomed but oncs, and once only, and
that was on the night Of, the earthquake
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OH. qlttt:eltiige1n!:el:n::
wusEIIso, ". VA, AUGUST II, 1887.
A Sudden Demand on tho President.

huuueu Deuhuu on tho itoh'ueht
Those Indian farmers who have been
considering the Presidents projected
swing round the circle have resolved that
hia journey 10 Ia fact campaign dodge.
They do not seem at all opposed to the
scheme as they understand Il, but they do
not want 1t carried out at the public OK.
pense. Therefore their suggestion that
he resign before he starts.
Tho Indian farmers mean well, bat they
are on the wrong scent. The President
started in 10 be a one term man, and who
Is authorized to cay that he has changed
bis mind? His contemplated journey
means nothing more than that he ia about
to repair one OF the mistakes OF his life.
Fortune made him the Chief Magiatrate
OF country about which he knows leas
than the aTersSo fairly informed citizen.
He is wise enough 10 realizs what he does
not know, and he has perhaps read that
the best way to study geography ia to
travel. And 60 the President has resolved
to travel and improve his mind. e.
Now, 80 far from this being in any way
reprehensible, 1t 10 ons Of the most com.
mendable moves OF his Administration,
and 1t is no argument against 1t that he Is
to receive his salary while no is journey
ing. Tho American people are not 80
cloae.fsted that they want their President
to be found at his desk sixteen hours a
dsy every day he is in oiiics. Let the
PRECEDENT travel. let him zee his country,
keep up the tone Of his health and give
to tho country the best that ia in him.
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suRD THE II. 4 o. ROAD.
Tbs wsst virsinia Central Claims lutarY

Violation Of Agreement. a a7',;i57
Ex.United sta!es Senator William Pink.
ney White and ex.Judge William A.
Fisher, attorneys for the West Virginia
Central & Pittsburgh Railway Company,
docketed a cult in the United States Cir
cult Court in Baltimore, Tuesday, for $50.
900, against the Baltimore < Ohio Railroad
Company. The declaration alleges that the
two roads, which meet at Piedmont, " Va,
had entered into an agreement In January,
1881, to use each others coal cars at certain
rates, and that the Baltimore 4 Ohio road
avread to transport coal Tor the West
Virginia Central & Pittsburgh road in
plaintiffs cars from Piedmont to Balti.
more. The plaintiffs claim that the Balti.
more & Ohio violated the contract, and
that, from April !, 1885. the Baltimore 4
Ohio has sidetracked 1853 OF their cars
loaded with coal, and kept them in that
position ever since. The bill farther a.
leges that the plaintiffs, as miners and
common carriers, had to fulfill certain
contracts, and in order 10 do 90 we're com.
PEELED to uss inferior cars Of the defend.
ants at excessive rates, and were put to
great loss thereby, besides having to re.
fuse orders which they claim would have
resulted to theit beneti. and prodtif the
Baltimore 4 Ohio had stood by the orig.
ihal agreement.
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s,cr.,nrI EnIllcote and ~, Horses,

There Is q fine row in Washington over
the purchase Of pair Of horses by the
Quartermaater-G eneral's office for the use
Of the Secretary OF War. Tho Second
Comptroller Of the Treasury reiuHe1 to
pass the account. The Deputy Quarter
master. General says he had nothing to do
but obey the order OF the Secretary, and
the Secretary holds that the Second
Comptroller has nothing to do but to paas
upon the correctness OF the account, not
stopping to inquire whether the diaburse-
ment 10 justified by the appropriation.
It uaed to be the fashion OF Democratic
speakers and newspapera to kick up row
about tho carriages kept by Cabinet off,
GERS at the public expense sand in those
days We heard much Of the reform to be
insngurated in this regard by the Demo-
cracy when IN the course Of human events
1T should come into power. Since the
Democracy has been il power The Cabinet
ohicefa holding by i!s grace have done
about as the Republicans did in the mat
ter Of horses and carriages. They use
them Tor basiness and for pleasure.
Why not? Unless tho law is broken by
the practice, which is at least open to
reasonable doubt, thoro ia no harm done.
The cont pst capita Of population is too
small TO SPEAK Of. A Cabinet officer is
expected to live as those With whom he
asaociates 1.-Two in Washington, and there
is, not much Jefsrsonian simplicity in
the Official cifc!ea Of the Capital. The
Halnry is email and the social demand0
great. II the Cabinet officers give good,
honest service, the country can we'll afford
to iurrish each with two horses and q
earyiaea g..ss't.Fyl f2i5
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DIED.

rNt .a.a.re DIED. NEaEE ry..E-
illlamsiown. ". Va, Wednesday,
August IL, 1857, LSLA r, wife Of s. Brady Mof.
gan, aged q years and months. So
Wednesday. August 10; 1887, at 1870
SO r. ". REtTIE, daughter OF ". L. and Carrie b.
Phillips, aged month aud days ti4
Funeral from the residence Of William II. Davis,
No, 90 sixteenth street, this afternoon at s
o'clock. ln.etment a. Peninsula Cemetery.
Little Harry went last summer, ~
when the flowers were b coming sweeily, -
Not one year DID he number. ~
When the angels called aud took him home.
I" Little Kettle went this summer.
When the lowers were blooming sweetly,
Just one month and two days old,
When tic angels called and took her home
Two golden links In heaven now,
Never RZa,n to lever: 5aa rt ~
Will parents follow their golden links,
Where parting will be nevet2
WHEELING, August 10. 1857. XIX. K.